West Africa may even reach 1,000 deaths from Ebola this weekend. Thatâs just a guess, but not a bad guess, considering the Olympic record of this hemorrhagic virus. At the beginning of July nearly 500 people had died from the disease; two weeks later, the numbers had increased by 20%,; and the most recent confirmed figure,
 Such migratory populations are notoriously difficult to track and this makes developing an intervention strategy â such as a large-scale vaccination program â extremely challenging. Key to determining where an outbreak is likely to occur (and thus where to initiate a vaccination program) is knowing where a population is expanding.
The key to achieving sustainable, global population growth, according to Doctor Hans Rosling in a recent TED Talk, is raising the standard of living of the worldâs poor. But, isnât a higher living standard correlated with increased use of energy and raw materials (the âfactor 32â effect) and thus bad for the planet? While the
